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Water and the Fitness
of the Environmen
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What molecule supports all of life?
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Water Cycle
Transportover land
Precipitationover landEvaporation
from oceanPrecipitationover ocean
Net movement ofwater vapor by wind
Solar energy
Evapotranspirationfrom land
Runoff andgroundwater
Percolationthroughsoil
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How does the polarity of water affect its properties?
• What is a polar molecule?• Has polar bonds• Water has polar covalent bonds
• Oxygen is more electronegative than H• Electrons of covalent bonds spend more
time closer to Oxygen than to H• Creates a polar molecule
• O region is partially negative• H regions are partially positive
• Causes the anomalous properties of water
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POLAR MOLECULE
H
O
H
H2O+ +
–
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HYDROGEN BONDS –
Water(H2O)
Ammonia(NH3)
Hydrogen bond
+
+
–
+
+
+
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States of Water
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How does this change when water is in different states?
• Slightly positive H of 1 molecule is attracted to slightly negative O of nearby molecule creating a H bond that holds those molecules together
• Hydrogen bonds by themselves are not that strong; however, when they are continuously forming, re-forming, breaking, then at any instant a large percentage of water molecules are hydrogen-bonded to neighbors
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Water and Polarity
Hydrogenbonds
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
• Cohesive behavior• Ability to moderate temperature• Expansion up freezing• Versatility as a solvent
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?Cohesive Behavior
• What is cohesion?• Molecules are linked by multiple hydrogen
bonds which make water more structured than other liquids
• Collectively, hydrogen bonds hold substance together = Cohesion
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Water and Cohesion
Water-conducting cells
100 µm
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?Cohesive Behavior
• Contributes to transport of water and dissolved nutrients against gravity in plants• There exists a network of water-conducting
cells help water reach the leaves from the roots
What starts the process?
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Adhesion
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?Cohesive Behavior
• Cohesion is supported by Adhesion• What is Adhesion?
• clinging of one substance to another• Adhesion of water to cell walls by those same
hydrogen bonds
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?Cohesive Behavior
•How is this related to Surface Tension?• Surface tension= how difficult it is to stretch or
break the surface of a liquid
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?Cohesive Behavior
• Benefits:• Bugs that walk on water• Bugs that use air bubble to breath underwater• Leads to transport of water and its dissolved
nutrients against gravity in plants• Water molecules leaving tree through
evaporation cause its H bonds to tug on water molecules in the tree creating an upward force of water
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Water and Temperature
Hydrogenbonds
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Ability to Moderate Temperature
• How does water moderate air temperature?• By absorbing heat from the air that is warmer
and releasing stored heat to air that is cooler• Can absorb or release a large amount of heat
with only slight change in its own temperature
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Ability to Moderate Temperature
• How does this work?1st - Have to understand what heat is:• Heat is a form of energy• Measure of the amount of heat is a measure of the
matter’s TOTAL kinetic energy due to motion of its molecules and depends on matter’s volume• The energy of motion= kinetic energy
• Related to temperature, but not same• Temperature= measure of heat intensity that
represents the average kinetic energy of the molecules, regardless of volume
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Ability to Moderate Temperature
• How does this work?• Water stabilizes temperatures from its relatively
high specific heat
• Specific Heat- • is defined as the amount of heat that must be
absorbed or lost for 1 g of that substance to change its temperature by 1 °C• For Water- 1 calorie per gram per °C = 1 cal/g/°C• Because has high specific heat relative to other
material, water will change its temperature less when it absorbs or loses a given amount of heat
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Ability to Moderate Temperature
• How does this work?• In order to absorb heat, bonds must be broken• Because once one bond is broken, it can reform
with another molecule, the heat absorbed is lost through the reforming of bonds,
• Much of the actual heat absorbed is used to break the bonds before the molecules can begin moving faster
• Water has a high specific heat and high heat of vaporization
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Ability to Moderate Temperature
• What is Evaporative cooling?• Molecules moving fast enough to overcome the
attraction to each other, can leave the liquid and enter the air as gas• Called Vaporization or Evaporation
• Heat of vaporization• Quantity of heat a liquid must absorb for 1 g
of it to be converted from liquid to the gaseous state
• High specific heat= high heat of vaporization• Caused by the H bond
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Evaporative Cooling
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Evaporative Cooling in plants
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Ability to Moderate Temperature
• What is Evaporative cooling?• As liquid evaporates, the surface of the liquid
that remains behind cools down• Occurs because the “hottest” molecules with
greatest kinetic energy, are the most likely to leave as a gas
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Ability to Moderate Temperature
• Benefits: • Bodies of water maintain a constant temperature keeping its
inhabitants from going into heat shock on a hot day• Keeps water warm on a cool day and cool on a hot day, and
in turn, cools the air around it on a hot day and heats air around it on a cool day
• Keeps temp for fluctuating greatly due to the fact that oceans cover the earth
• Helps moderate Earth’s climate bc amount of solar heat absorbed by tropical seas is consumed during the evaporation of surface water
• Contributes to stability of temperature in lakes and ponds and provides mechanism that prevents terrestrial organisms for overheating
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What happens to the ice?
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Expansion Upon Freezing
• Water is less dense as a solid than as a liquid• Ice Floats• Begins freezing when its molecules are no longer
moving vigorously enough to break their hydrogen bonds
• Above 4 degrees C acts like any other liquid, but below, freezes at 0 degrees locking the water molecules in place in their very structured arrangement• Becomes about 10% less dense
• Creates H bonds at arms’ length from each other• When absorbs enough heat for water to rise above
0°C then the H bonds become disrupted
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Hydrogen Bond angles
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Expansion Upon Freezing
• What happens after 0°C?• Water reaches its greatest density at 4°C and begins to
expand as the molecules move faster
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Expansion Upon Freezing
• Benefits:• Fish get to survive in cold temperatures• We get cold drinks
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Universal Solvent
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Versatility as a Solvent
• Solution-• Liquid that is completely homogeneous
mixture of two or more substances
• Solvent-• Dissolving agent of a solution
• Solute-• Substance that is dissolved
• Aqueous solution-• Solution in which water is the solvent
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Solution
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Suspension
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ColloidThis is why you should shake milk
first
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Versatility as a Solvent
• Why is water such a versatile solvent?• Due to polarity of the ions• Ions have mutual affinity through electrical
attraction of the opposite charges• For this reason, water molecules surround the
individual ions, separating and shielding them from one another, creating a hydration shell• Hydration shell- sphere of water molecules
around each dissolved ion
• Compounds don’t have to be ionic to dissolve water• Dissolve when water molecules surround each of
the solute molecules, forming hydrogen bonds with them
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Versatility as a Solvent
• It’s ability to be such a great solvent, led to the creation of the two terms:• Hydrophilic
• Any substance that has an affinity for water• Can be hydrophilic without dissolving-• Substances that are suspended in the aqueous
solution create mixtures called: colloid• Stable suspension of fine particles in a liquid
• Hydrophobic• Any substance that does not have an affinity for
water• Generally substances that are nonionic and nonpolar• Seems to repel water
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What are the 4 Emergent Properties of Water?
Versatility as a Solvent
• Benefits:• Allows the movement of solvents through
cohesion• Makes the solvent hydrophilic, benefitting
cellular processes
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How can you determine how many atoms and molecules are involved and
present in an aqueous solution?
• Use mass to calculate the number of molecules
• Process:• Know:
• Mass of each atom in molecule
• Calculate:• Molecular Mass
• Sum of masses of all the atoms in a molecule
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How can you determine how many atoms and molecules are involved and
present in an aqueous solution?
• Example:• C6H12O6 = Glucose
• (12 daltons) x 6 + (1 daltons) x 12 + (16 daltons) x 6 = 72+12+96 = 180 daltons
• Glucose has a molecular mass of 180 daltons
• Not practical to measure out 1 molecule of something, instead we use mole
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How can you determine how many atoms and molecules are involved and present in an
aqueous solution?
• Know:• Mole = (mol) = represents an exact number of
objects – 6.02 x 1023 • 6.02 x 1023 = Avogadro’s number• There are 6.02 x 1023 daltons in 1 gram
• Calculate :• Molar mass
• Use the molecular mass to determine the grams of the molecule to give 6.02 x 1023 molecules of the substance = 1 mol of the substance
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How can you determine how many atoms and molecules
are involved and present in an aqueous solution?
• Example:• Glucose has a molecular mass of 180 daltons• Therefore, there are 180 grams for 1 mol of glucose
• What is the point of this?• If you want to make a 1:1 mixture of something, using
mol makes it easier to create that mixture because you can’t just mix 10 grams of one and 10 grams of the other because it might not represent a 1:1 molecular mixture because the molecules have different weights
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How can you determine how many atoms and molecules are involved and
present in an aqueous solution?
• What if you wanted to make a solution?• Determine the molar mass and add enough
water to bring the total volume of the solution up to 1 L = 1 Molar solution
• Molarity= the number of moles of solute per liter of solution
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What are Acids and Bases?
• Hydrogen ion-• H+• Occurs when a hydrogen atom participating
in a hydrogen bond between two water molecules shifts from one molecule to the other
• Hydrogen atom leaves it electron behind • what is actually transferred is a hydrogen
atom with a positive charge• a single proton with a charge of +1
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What are Acids and Bases?
• hydroxide ion –• OH-• The water molecule that lost the proton• Has a charge of 1-
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What are Acids and Bases?
• Hydronium ion –• H30+
• Occurs when the proton binds to another water molecule
• This reaction is reversible
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What are Acids and Bases?
• Overall, what effect does this have?• H+ does not exist solitarily, always
associated with another water molecule• The reversible reaction is generally at a
dynamic equilibrium when water molecules dissociate at the same rate that they are being re-formed from H+ and OH-
• These concentrations are equal in pure water• By themselves, H+ and OH- are very reactive• Adding solutes (Acids and Bases) disrupt the
balance present in pure water
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What are Acids and Bases?
• Acids• Acidic• When dissolve in water, donate additional H+ to
solution• Substance that increases the hydrogen ion
concentration of a solution• Example:
• Hydrochloric acid (HCl)
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What are Acids and Bases?
• Acids• Strong Acids-
• Compounds that dissociate completely when mixed with water to increase the concentration of H+
• Represented as a single arrow
• Weak Acids-• Compounds that DO NOT dissociate completely when
mixed with water, but still increase the concentration of H+
• Represented as a double sided arrow• Accept back the Hydrogen ions
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What are Acids and Bases?
• Bases• Basic• Reduces the hydrogen ion concentration of a
solution• Have higher concentrations of OH- than H+• Some reduce H+ concentration by directly
accepting hydrogen ions• Example:
• Ammonia
• Others reduce H+ concentration indirectly by dissociating to form hydroxide ions that combine with the H+ to form water• Example:
• Sodium hydroxide
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What are Acids and Bases?
• Bases• Strong base-
• Compounds that dissociate completely when mixed with water to increase the concentration of OH-
• Represented as a single arrow
• Weak Bases-• Compounds that DO NOT dissociate completely
when mixed with water, but still increase the concentration of OH-
• Represented as a double sided arrow• Will release back the Hydrogen ions
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What are Acids and Bases?
• Neutral solutions• H+ and OH- are equal
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What is pH? What exactly does it measure?
• At any aqueous solution at 25°C, the product of the hydrogen and hydroxide ion concentrations is constant at 10-14
• [H+][OH-] = 10-14
• Neutral solutions = • [H+] = 10-7 and [OH-] = 10-7 • 10-7 x 10-7 = 10-14
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What is pH? What exactly does it measure?
• What if:• [H+] = 10-5 (therefore, the number of
H+ ion increases_?
10-5 x 10-? = 10-14
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What is pH? What exactly does it measure?• pH scale compresses the range of H+ and
OH- concentrations by employing the logarithmic scale using logarithms
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What is pH? What exactly does it measure?• the pH is defined as the negative logarithm
(base 10) of the hydrogen ion concentration:• pH = - log [H+]• Neutral =
• –log 10-7 = -(-7)= 7• pH of 7
• Acid = • pH declines as the H+ concentration increases• pH of less than 7
• Base = • pH of greater than 7
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What is pH? What exactly does it measure?• based on H+ concentrations while implying
OH- concentrations• each pH unit represents a tenfold difference
in H+ and OH- concentrations
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What is a Buffer?• Help maintain a relatively constant pH in
biological fluids despite the addition of acids or bases
• Substances that minimize changes in the concentration of H+ and OH- in a solution when they have been depleted
• Most contain a weak acid and its corresponding base• These combine reversibly with hydrogen ions
• The chemical equilibrium created by buffers acts as a pH regulator in which the reaction shifts left or right as other processes in the solution add or remove hydrogen ions
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Buffering by Bicarbonate in blood
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What is a Buffer?
• Example:
• If the H+ concentration falls (increase in pH), the reaction shifts right
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Why are buffers important?
• Even a slight change in pH can be harmful, because the chemical processes of the cell are very sensitive to the concentration of hydrogen and hydroxide ions
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How can all of this information affect our water quality on Earth?
• Most life is dependent on water
• Actions:• Burning of fossil fuels
• Releases gaseous compounds into the atmosphere, including copious amounts of CO2 which alter the delicate balance of conditions of life on Earth by affecting water pH and temperature. Major source of sulfur oxides and nitrous oxides that react with water in the air to form strong acids which fall to the Earth as rain or snow
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Acid Rain Source
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Acid rain effects on plants
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Acid Rain and Concrete
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How can all of this information affect our water quality on Earth?
• Results:• Acid precipitation- rain, snow, and fog with pH
lower than 5.2• Carried by wind can affect not just the polluted
areas, but also area miles away• Can affect the water supply• Can have adverse effects on land by affecting the
soil chemistry• Effected many North American and European forests
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How can all of this information affect our water quality on Earth?• Results:
• CO2 is the main produce of fossil fuel combustion• It’s released into the atmosphere, and ½ stays in the
atmosphere• Acts like reflective blanket that prevents heat from radiating
into outer space• Causes the greenhouse effect
• Some is taken up by trees, but about 30% is absorbed by the ocean• Can harm marine life and ecosystems• Reacts with water to form carbonic acid which dissociates,
producing protons and a balance between bicarbonate and carbonate• This process can affect the production of calcium
carbonate by corals – needed for calcification in coral reefs